Dorothy Chan

{{short description|Poet and author based in Eau Claire}}

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Dorothy Chan is an American poet, author, editor, and scholar based in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Chan's work has appeared in Poetry (magazine), The American Poetry Review, Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere.

Chan has published four works of poetry: Revenge of the Asian Woman (Diode Editions, 2019), Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold (Spork Press, 2018), BABE (Diode Editions, 2021), and the chapbook Chinatown Sonnets (New Delta Review, 2017). In 2018, Chan became Hobart Poetry Editor and later joined the English department faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire in 2019 as Assistant Professor of Creative Writing.{{cite web |title=About |url=https://www.hobartpulp.com/about |website=Hobart |accessdate=2020-05-26}}{{cite web |title=The University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire's English department welcomes a new Creative Writing professor this semester, Dorothy Chan |url=https://www.uwec.edu/news/english/the-university-of-wisconsin-eau-claire-s-english-department-welcomes-a-new-creative-writing-professor-this-semester-dorothy-chan-3843/ |website=University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire |accessdate=2020-05-26}} She is the co-founder and editor-in-chief of Honey Literary, a BIPOC-focused journal built by women of color.